"My Thoughts, Ideas And Other Mental Problems"

The former British intelligence officer who authored the infamous Russia dossier wanted to show it to the FBI because he was concerned that then-candidate Donald Trump was being blackmailed.

Christopher Steele told the political research firm that hired him, Fusion GPS, that what he uncovered from Russian sources was serious enough to bring to the attention of U.S. law enforcement authorities, according to a transcript released on Tuesday.

The transcript, of an interview Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson did with the Senate Judiciary Committee, was released on Tuesday by the committee’s top Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California.

Fusion GPS was first hired in 2015 by a conservative donor to investigate Trump’s background in the early stages of the Republican presidential nominating process. Later, as Trump’s pathway to the Republican nomination became more assured, the firm was hired by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee to continue that research.

The resulting memos, written over the summer and fall of 2016, were explosive: They alleged that the Russian government has compromising material on the president, and that Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia to defeat Hillary Clinton during the presidential elections.